[ILUG] getting IP of machine on DHCP

[bobb at redbrick.dcu.ie]

David Neary hath declared on Wednesday the 20 day of December 2000  :-:
> 
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0
> 
> This'll give you the IP allocated to your machine until the next reboot.
> You can run it as you, don't have to be root or anything. I suppose you
> could throw the output of that into a mail to get it onto your other
> machine...
 
Could also ping your broadcast address and then grep the netmask out
of arp -a

-- 
Robert "bobb" Crosbie.
System Administrator, Internet Ireland.